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Photo competition winners!

A massive thank you to all who entered our Library photo competition, and well done to the winners. 

Winning photos will be displayed in our new bookable rooms. Each room is named after something you would find on the moorlands surrounding Bradford, whether that's a plant, animal or even a famous farmhouse. 

The photos were anonymised when the judging took place.

Congratulations to:

Beehive room: Debbie Alstead, Executive Assistant to the Academic Registrar

Bilberry room: Arwa Almazrouei, Student

Bracken room: Shell Peart, Student

Butterfly room: Catherine Mercer, Directorate Support Administrator

Curlew room: Pete Dilley, Admissions Officer

Heather room: Paul Loadman, Professor of Pharmacology (the competition overall winning photo)

Ingleborough room: Steve Gilley, Director of Infrastructure

Limestone room: Steve Gilley, Director of Infrastructure

Oak room: Tracy Holmes, Lead Teaching Technician

Skylark room: no entries

Swaledale room: Arwa Almazrouei, Student

Top Withens room: Tim Green, English for Academic Purposes Lecturer

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Bradford Scholars update coming in February

The Bradford Scholars repository is due a system upgrade in February and the repository team are currently busy preparing for this migration.

In order to facilitate the switch-over, we need to suspend paper submissions from RIS to Bradford Scholars for a short period starting on Friday 31 January at 16:00. This stage is expected to last approximately 1-2 weeks. During this time you may still claim/manually add publication information to your RIS Outputs but they cannot be sent over to the repository until the upgrade is completed.

The switch-over date will be announced as soon as possible in early February.

During this final stage before roll out people may still access our repository content as normal.

If you have any questions about this planned update do get in touch via openaccess@bradford.ac.uk.

Broaden Bradford's Books

Your University Library supports University of Bradford’s decolonisation strategy and is committed to provision of inclusive and diverse collections. Broaden Bradford’s Books is an initiative for our staff and students to help us with our aim to increase the diversity of our library collections. For example, broadening the range of books in our Library to support a more diverse curriculum, improving the representation of research from the Global South, and, increasing the range of books by and about LGBT+ people. We also welcome suggestions to include in the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Resource bank which the library has started to develop to support the University’s EDI work.

Please complete the form with any suggestions you have. All suggestions will be reviewed by our Subject Librarian team. Books may be purchased in eBook or print format.

Thank you!

University of Bradford Library Team

Special Collections achieves Archive Service Accreditation for second time

Congratulations to Special Collections for achieving the Archive Service Accreditation award for a second time!

Archive Service Accreditation is the UK standard for archive services and this award means that Special Collections has been recognised again for good performance in all aspects of service delivery.

Come and join our library community!

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